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Fantastic Oldies Game!

(I hate to admit it, but) the first record I ever bought was The BALLAD of Davy Crockett by Tennessee Ernie Ford. And it wasn't even the hit version!!!
 
On his early records, Johnny Cash's backing band included Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on bass, and they were identified on the Sun labels as Johnny Cash And The Tennessee Two; the group became The Tennessee Three when drummer W.S. Holland joined in 1960.
 
Mike Nesmith's line “Ah, Pick It Luther” from the song “Papa Gene’s Blues” is a reference to Luther Perkins and Johnny Cash. who used the line in one of his songs.
 
"Johnny Is The Boy For Me" is a horrible song I remember by Les Paul & Mary Ford.
 
"He Sure Ain't The Boy I've Been Dreaming Of But He's Sure The Boy I Love" from Spector's The Crystals.
 
Those RRRRs said:
"Johnny Is The Boy For Me" is a horrible song I remember by Les Paul & Mary Ford.
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Johnny Get Angry, by Joanie Sommers, was a great tune from '62.
The song had a tantalizing bass introduction.
It also a wonderful harmonica/ kazoo section.

Interestingly, it came out and was on the charts the very same week in 1962 that another kazoo song was out: Dion Dimucchi's Little Diane was also a top 10 hit.
 
Don62 said:
Johnny Get Angry, by Joanie Sommers, was a great tune from '62.
The song had a tantalizing bass introduction.
It also a wonderful harmonica/ kazoo section.
Interestingly, it came out and was on the charts the very same week in 1962 that another kazoo song was out: Dion Dimucchi's Little Diane was also a top 10 hit.
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I love this game. I've been waiting to bring up the first song. I then recalled the great DIon song.
 
Does anyone remember HARMONICA Fats and "Tore Up"? Never a big hit, but a fun song in the 60's. "Toe up over you and I jess can't find my way."
 
It's about time we give some credit to the great Fats Domino, whose biggest hits, "The Fat Man" (his first recording), "Blueberry Hill," "I'm In Love Again," "I'm Walkin'," "Blue Monday," and "Whole Lotta Loving" were all million sellers.

[An aside to Those RRRRs: re your reference to Les Paul. I will be introducing Mr. Paul at an appearance here in Milwaukee next week. True.]
 
Tall Paul, Tall Paul, he's my all? LOL.

Remember "First Name Initial" from Annette? If you have an original, flip it for a great side called "My Heart Became Of Age!" It'll knock your socks off!
 
Close Enough!

"For goodness sake, it's the hippy hippy shake," one of about 100 BI tunes that I actually dig, from The Swingin' Blue Jeans!
 
SWINGIN' Safari, another great Billy Vaughn instrumental, although he ripped it off from Bert Kaempfert, he is still one of the undersung heros of the oldies business.
 
"Oh Bobby Oh, Everything's Cool, (That's Cool) We're Going Down To A Swingin' School!"

Robert Riverelli (sp?) aka Bobby Rydell on Cameo Parkway!
 
A truly swingin' song from 1966 was "Cool Jerk" by The Capitols, a trio from Detroit, which featured backing instrumentals by Motown's legendary Funk Brothers: "look at those guys looking at me like I'm a fool, but deep down inside they know I'm cool..."
 
If anyone remembers anything about The Sherrys on Cameo Parkway, they usually remember "Pop Pop Pop Pie," but they also had a tune called "Slow Jerk."
 
Singer/songwriter Don McLean refuses to confirm specifics, but many of the lyrics in his opus "American Pie - Parts I & II" are understood to refer to well-known rock artists, including "Satan" (Mick Jagger), "the jester" (Bob Dylan), "the marching band" (The Beatles), "a girl who sang the blues" (Janis Joplin), and "the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost" (Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens) -- although there are other interpretations of who's who.
 
"Killing Me Softly With His Song" was a #1 hit for Roberta Flack in 1973. The song was originally recorded by Lori Lieberman in 1972 who had recently seen Don McLean in concert at the Troubadour in LA. She explained how mesmorized she was by the experience to Gimbel and Fox who were writing songs for her album and the song. They wrote the song for her about him (McLean).
 
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